| HB24 | Intro
Sine Die | BPOL tax; certain localities required to assess on Virginia taxable income. Requires that the local license (BPOL) tax be imposed on the Virginia taxable income of a business for any locality that did not impose a BPOL tax in license year 2011 and su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter registration; political party affiliation. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may choose to be listed as independent or undesignated. Voters regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Research using human embryos prohibited; penalty. Prohibits nontherapeutic research that destroys a human embryo or subjects such embryo to substantial risk of injury or death; the bill also prohibits the use of any cells or tissues taken by destroyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Admission of in-state students at public institutions of higher education. Provides that the board of visitors or other governing body of each public institution of higher education, except for Virginia Military Institute, Norfolk State University, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Education Committee |
| HB542 | Intro
Sine Die | Highway maintenance projects. Allows counties, cities, and towns to use "revenue-sharing funds" for highway maintenance projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Electric utilities; renewable energy portfolio standard program. Adjusts the mix of energy sources that qualify as satisfying the requirements of the renewable energy portfolio standard program. The measure limits the amount of renewable energy gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Commerce and Labor Committee |
| HB510 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia ports; change in ownership. Requires approval of both the Governor and the General Assembly before any change in ownership of any Virginia port is permitted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners. Removes the petition requirement for the Parole Board to consider a geriatric release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Private road maintenance. Provides that any county may by ordinance require that, in any instance where individual lots for residential use are subdivided from a larger tract, the deed shall require that each lot purchaser contribute a pro rata share...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Drug-free and gang-free zones; penalties. Provides enhanced penalties for gang activities or drug manufacture, distribution, or possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of multifamily housing for older persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Condominium Act and Property Owners' Association Act; charges for rules violations. Increases from $50 to $100 the charge that may be assessed by an association for a rules violation for a single offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Individual income tax deduction for certain purchases from space flight entities. Provides an individual income tax deduction in the amount paid for a prepaid contract entered into with a commercial space flight entity to place the taxpayer's cremat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Advertising within the limits of a highway. Increases the civil penalty for advertising within the limits of a highway from $100 to $250.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Fees; additional fees for conviction of domestic violence offenses. Assesses an additional $50 fee for conviction of domestic violence offenses to be retained by the locality to support investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Determination of status of unclaimed cremains belonging to veterans. Provides that prior to the disposal of any unclaimed cremains, a funeral director must submit the name and any other identifying information for such cremains to the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Senate and House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Changes district assignments of certain Isle of Wight County census blocks between Senate Districts 3, 14, and 18 and House of Delegates Districts 64 and 75 in order to follow current pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Pawnbrokers; records required to be maintained; digital images. Requires pawnbrokers to take a digital image of (i) the person involved in the transaction, (ii) the form of identification used by the person involved in the transaction, and (iii) the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (12-Y 2-N) |
| HB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Medical College of Virginia; naming conventions. Requires Virginia Commonwealth University to include the name "Medical College of Virginia" or the acronym "MCV" in all references to The Medical College of Virginia, Health Science...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
House: Engrossment refused by House |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Authority is charged with establishing and operating health benefit exchanges for qualified individuals and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Public Procurement Act; use of best value procurement by certain localities. Authorizes the governing body of a locality with a population in excess of 100,000 to procure construction on a best value procurement basis. Under the bill, if pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Stricken from docket by General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefits Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefits Exchange Authority as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, as recommended by the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council. The Authority is charged with establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Commerce and Labor (12-Y 4-N) |
| SB496 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission. The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Incorporated by Commerce and Labor |
| HB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Requirement that certain planning commissioners own real property. Removes the requirement that at least one-half of the members of a local planning commission be owners of real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (36-Y 61-N) |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Mandated health insurance benefits; essential benefits package. Provides that health insurance plans will not be required, effective January 1, 2014, to provide coverage for state-mandated health benefits to the extent that the benefit is not an esse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; criminal investigative records. Amends the definition of "criminal investigative file" so that the exemption applies to records relating to active or ongoing investigations or prosecutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (7-Y 6-N) |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Freedom of Information Act; exemption for cell phone numbers for EMS personnel and firefighters. Provides an exemption from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Freedom of Information Act for records of a fire/EMS company or fire/EMS department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-13
Senate: Incorporated by General Laws and Technology |
| HB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying weapons in air carrier airport terminals; removing prohibition against carrying firearms. Removes the prohibition against carrying certain firearms and other weapons in air carrier airport terminals. The bill retains the prohibition against...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Income tax; long-term care insurance credit. Increases the amount of the credit an individual may claim for long-term care insurance premiums from 15 percent to 30 percent of the amount of the premiums paid. The bill would be effective for taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Land preservation tax credit. Reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the amount of the land preservation tax credit that may be claimed for taxable years 2012 and 2013. Any taxpayer affected by the credit reduction would be allowed two additional taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Application of foreign laws. Prohibits any Virginia court or administrative agency from applying the law of any jurisdiction outside of the United States and its territories unless the application is required by the United States Constitution, the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act. Adopts the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act to promote uniformity of treatment and improved administration of election laws for military and overseas voters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Arresting officer to ascertain citizenship of arrestee. Supplements the existing law that requires sheriffs to make a query into legal presence when a person is "taken into custody" at a jail. This bill expands such inquiries by requiring inquiries o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1267 | Intro
Sine Die | Corporate income tax; combined reporting requirements. Requires, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013, combined reporting for corporate income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal history record information checks; elimination of fees. Eliminates the fees to be collected by licensed dealers for every firearms transaction that requires a criminal history record information check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| SB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Opportunities for work and career and technical education; child support. Requires the Department to withhold child support payments out of moneys paid to prisoners who maintain a job within the Department. Child support payments owed will also be wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
Senate: Continued to 2013 in Rehabilitation and Social Services (15-Y 0-N) |
| HB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; final disposition of surplus funds by General Assembly members. Requires any member of the General Assembly who leaves office for any reason to file his final campaign finance report and disburse all surplus funds within six months ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote |
| HB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Telework expenses tax credit. Raises the cap on the aggregate amount of tax credits available in calendar years 2012 and 2013 for telework expenses from $1 million to $1.5 million. The bill also raises the cap on the amount of credits that can be cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB838 | Intro
Sine Die | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 47 and 49 in Arlington County in order to coordinate polling places with precincts. Both districts remain within one percent d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Telephone services for incarcerated persons. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to exercise jurisdiction over rates and charges of telecommunication services that enable correctional inmates to originate calls at pay telephones or other tele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Penalty for DUI maiming. Provides that the punishment for DUI maiming, a Class 6 felony, shall include a mandatory minimum term of confinement of one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Tabled in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Criminal law; redefinition of the triggerman rule. Redefines the "triggerman rule," which currently provides that only the actual perpetrator of a capital murder is eligible for the death penalty and that accessories and principals in the second degr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Incorporated by Courts of Justice |
| HB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Richmond Metropolitan Authority; police. Provides that the Authority may exercise full law-enforcement powers upon all property owned, operated, managed, leased, or maintained by or under the control of the Authority; establish and maintain a police...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Appropriations by voice vote |
| HB1194 | Intro
Sine Die | Farm wineries and vineyards tax credit. Raises the total annual amount of tax credits available under the farm wineries and vineyards tax credit to $500,000 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Finance by voice vote |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Carrying concealed weapons by former attorneys for the Commonwealth. Provides an exemption for former attorneys for the Commonwealth and former assistant attorneys for the Commonwealth from the requirement to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Passed by indefinitely in Militia, Police and Public Safety by voice vote |
| HB1285 | Intro
Sine Die | Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act; penalty. Creates the Virginia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, created in new Article 9.1 of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2, prohibits an abortion after 20 weeks gestation unless, in reas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Medicaid; appeals of agency determinations. Provides that all recommended or final case decisions in administrative hearings regarding Medicaid overpayments shall be made in accordance with the Administrative Process Act, shall be based on the whole...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1283 | Intro
Sine Die | Child custody and visitation; person with a legitimate interest. Provides that a person with a legitimate interest who may petition for custody or visitation of a child that is not his or her own must be a grandparent, stepparent, former stepparent, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Civil remedies; use of depositions. Allows for motions for summary judgment to be based, in whole or in part, upon pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions on file, or affidavits. Currently, such motions cannot be based on depos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
| HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Mortgage foreclosure; right to reinstatement. Provides that the grantor under a first priority deed of trust securing a loan on residential real property may, at any time up to the date of the sale of the property, cure any default, de-accelerate, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-10
House: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice by voice vote |
